Quotes About Outcome

So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission? asked the expendable. The mission didn't fail, said Ram. It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.

This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I'll tell you something. If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.

it's not unusual in history for the solution to one problem to become the root of the next one.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

History was full of divergence points nobody could get anywhere near—from Archduke Ferdinand's assassination to the battle of Trafalgar. Events so critical and so volatile that the introduction of a single variable—such as a time traveler—could change the outcome. And alter the entire course of history.

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

She looked away. You make it like it was the coin. But you're the one. It could have gone either way. The coin didn't have no say. It was just you. Perhaps. But look at it my way. I got here the same way the coin did.

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They dont know how bad what might get.

To know what will come is the same as to make it so.

You dont always get what you want. But then you dont always want what you get so it's probably pretty much of a wash.

Man dont always catch what he fishes for.

There's no way to answer that question. My friend John maintains that if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

There's some things you dont decide. Decidin had nothin to do with it.

if you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story, then maybe you can change everything about it: who goes out, who comes in, how it ends, who's happy, and who's unhappy afterwards.

When one employs a method of verifying miracles that insists that they be replicable in controlled settings, yet regards as natural and nonmiraculous any event that is so replicable,[121] one has framed the method so as to secure the expected antisupernatural outcome.

I'm sorry we lied to you, Mother. But the ends justify the means… A fine outcome excuses a bad method… You'll understand when you're older.